Pubdate: Tue, 12 May 2015
Source: Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
Copyright: 2015 The Arizona Republic
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Author: Robert Fern

CARTELS CHEER ON PROSECUTORS FOR HELPING THEM KEEP PROFITS

I write this letter on behalf of the traditional drug cartels 
operating within our state.

These lucrative businesses now face the threat of a well-regulated 
and taxed government program that would restrict sales of marijuana 
in the same way America restricts the sale of alcohol.

Organized crime lost trillions of dollars since the repeal of alcohol 
prohibition in the 1930s. Cartels don't want to suffer the same fate.

These cartels, now representing our great state, wish to applaud and 
support the efforts of Attorney General Mark Brnovich and county 
attorneys Sheila Polk and Bill Montgomery in their crusade to 
"educate" the people of Arizona, and to decide for Arizona citizens 
that marijuana sales need to stay in the hands of the cartels that 
have faithfully served Arizona for decades.

- - Robert Fern, Show Low
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